Here are my rather lofty ideas on reincarnation, which have grown and mutated through the years through personal experience, the thoughts of others, and my own intuition.

Imagine yourself sitting in a bubble bath. YOU exist amidst all the bubbles, but each of those bubbles displays a reflection of you, most distorted. Now, consider all those bubbles lives that you are CURRENTLY living. Yes, I basically believe our "past lives" are all happening simultaneously. When a bubble pops, a lesson has been learned and there is no longer a need for it. When all the bubbles pop, it is simply YOU, returned to your natural self, with the experience of all those bubbles locked inside of what fundamentally makes you, YOU.

Dreams, I think, are doorways into these simultaneous existences, these alternate dimensions if you will. When you get a glimpse into these lives, you have the opportunity to affect them. What you do in this reality, the one you are currently aware of, affects what happens, on some levels, in ALL realities. When one bubble pops, for instance, it creats ripple effects. With this in mind, you can consciously learn to control what happens in those other lives, effectively picking and chosing what should happen next in the reality you're aware of, because just as you can control what happens in those realities, the YOU that IS in those realities can just as easily affect what happens to you here.

I'm not sure I explained that as clearly as I'd hoped, but there you have it.

"It is absolutely necessary that the soul shall be healed and purified, and if it doesn't take place in one life on earth, it must be accomplished in future earthly lives." Saint Gregory of Nyssa - Roman Catholic Bishop - Approximately 380 AD

Can someone please either Link me to or send attachment of where this quote was taken from?

It is posted at a number of Online sites but no one I have contacted can verify its authenticity?

Please contact me also at jacobe111@iinet.net.au if any one has proof that the Catholic Church first taught reincarnation but then were apparently forced by Justinian and Theodora to drop it?